CVE-2022-21919 - Privilege escalation

Urgent

Remediate Within one Week

CVE Information

Original CVE data

Published: January 11, 2022

Updated: August 8, 2023

Windows User Profile Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2022-21895.

CVSS v26.9

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v37

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-21919

Affected Vendors

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOⁿengine

Privilege escalation

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOⁿengine

CVSS v24.6

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v37.8

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

MITRE CWE Top 25

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is referenced under CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

Vulnerability is mentioned or trending in social media.

Threat Actor Activity

Vulnerability is being actively exploited by threat actors during campaigns.

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1529 - System Shutdown/Reboot

T1499.004 - Endpoint Denial of Service (Application or System Exploitation)

T1203 - Exploitation for Client Execution

T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application